Holding a press conference on Siemens shop floor instead of attending the Commons

Op-Ed: So UK PM David Cameron has what he thinks is a good draft deal on renegotiating British membership of the EU but instead of sharing it with parliament he ran to the mainstream media in particular sections of the press that appear to be in Tory pockets.

As the House of Commons prepared to listen to an urgent question put forward by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, Cameron and friends were nowhere to be seen.

Neither were senior Tory ministers; instead it was a foreign office minister left waffling his way through a half-ass debate that from the Tory benches was more about dragging up any old history pertaining to the Labour party.

Tuning in I was disappointed but not surprised that in effect Tory party leader David Cameron was spitting on British democracy from a great height and not for the first time.

So where was our David and his senior ministers?

Cameron announced he had secured a draft deal worth fighting for but at a press conference held in a Siemens factory. On hand to ask questions was the BBC's top political editor Laura Kuenssberg.

Who is Laura Kuennssberg you may ask.

Well according to Wikipedia "she is the daughter of Scottish businessman Nick Kuenssberg, OBE, and his wife Sally Kuenssberg, CBE, her paternal grandfather was the German-born Dr. Ekkehard von Kuenssberg, a founder and president of the Royal College of General Practitioners. Her maternal grandfather was Lord Robertson who was a High Court of Justiciary judge. Kuenssberg was born in Italy, while her father was assigned there by Coats Viyella. She grew up in Glasgow, with her brother and sister, and attended Laurel Bank School, an independent girls' school. Kuenssberg studied history at the University of Edinburgh, followed by a journalism course at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. where she worked on an NBC News political programme. Her brother is a senior civil servant in the Department for Communities and Local Government and her sister is a diplomat, High Commissioner to Mozambique since 2014."

Just an ordinary working-class lass then.

Kuenssberg is a recent addition to the BBC's political news team and she is often accused of being a Tory mouthpiece.

So as far as the Tory party goes it was perhaps fitting she was there asking questions that the PM opted to answer while the leader of the official opposition was in the Commons being ignored and as usual receiving no straight answers from the Tory benches.

Kuenssberg is in the habit of helping the Tories out by bad-mouthing Jeremy Corbyn and undermining him at each and every opportunity which could of course be down to her Scottish background. She like Cameron maybe has a vested interest in the SNP keeping a grip on political power north of the border.

There is already at least one petition online demanding Kuenssberg be sacked.

Still she may be popular with some of the electorate or Labour party but the Tories like her.

Cameron is rushing to get an EU deal signed off so that he can put it before the electorate at a time to suit HIM and no other person. It may suit his political ambitions this year or even his desire to resign from the role of Tory party leader between now and 2020 but the timing will have nothing to do with the electorate.

The bets are on for June 2016 although Cameron can hold the EU ref anytime before the end of 2017 and fulfil his election manifesto.

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